The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-20

his mind on the battle-flag question in
a manner not pleasing to the democratic
press, which fails to print it. He said:
1.-THE time may come, perhaps has
come, when it were well to burn those
rebel flags; but the time has not come
and never will when those flags should
be returned, until you and l comrades,
are ready to acknowledge that in our
defence of the Union we were wrong,
and will join with the other perpetrators
of that wrong to do all that is within
our power to repair it,"
THE method of regulating the drink
evil in Sweden and Norway is a pecu-
liar one. No intoxicant can be sold
except at a place where good food,
coffee and other non-alcohoic drinks
are also kept constantly on hand. The
dealer is allowed to make profit on
these, but he is stringently prohibited
from selling any liquor except at cost.
The idea is that dealers will thus en-
deavor to promote the sale of edibles
and Notwithstanding drinks, upon
which he does make profit, and dis
courage buyers from drinking liquors
upon winch he makes none.
THE Toledo Blade has polled q 800
of its subscribers as to their presidential
preferences, with this result: For
Blaine, II ,010; Sherman, 1884; Lincoln,
2,237; Allison, 1884; Edmunds, III; In
gersoll, 115; Harrison, 101; ingalls,, %;
General Sherman, "a; Evarts, Isl:
uowloy AZ. nopou Ak. EnraI,ar
and all others, BAL. Blaine leads Sher-
man even in Ohio. For second choice
for president Sherman leads, having
1888, and Blaine 3,473. For vice
president Lincoln had 7 1896 votes; De-
pew, ,256; Harrison, ia, and others
smaller numbers. This canvass is in
teresting, if not very decisive.
EDITOR ATKINS has a brother that
he is proud of, and he has good reason
to be. A week or two ago the Mont
pelier Argus spoke of this brother in
mplimentary terms and mentioned
the fact, among others, that he was a
! fighting captain in the Union army.
Nothing was said concerning his poll
tics, but the reader was left to infer
that he was a democrat. Nothing OF
the sort. The brother Alfred is of the
most stalwart republican mold, and the
sharpest political firing at Camp Watson
the other day occurred between Editor
Atkins of Montpelier and Merchant AL
fred Atkins of Roselle, n. J. The article
in the Argus would have had more
force if the whole story had been told.
st. A Dams Messenger.
THE argument that the internal rev.
enue taxes on whiskey and tobacco
ought not to be abolished because these
are harmful luXuries and their use
ought not to be encouraged seems to us
fallacious. We do not believe that
there would be any appreciate increase
in the consumption of these articles if
the taxes on them were removed. Peo-
pie who want to use them will have
them anyway, tax or no tax, regardless
of cost. Any tax that has become I'M
necessary for purposes of revenue
should be abolished, and only those
taxes retained that are necessary for
the protection of home industries and
which at the same time afford sufficient
revenue to meet the needful eXpendi-
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lures of the general government.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Star, the organ of the administration
has sent it the amount which he paid
for two suits of clothing in London
with the duties, freights, ETC., added
The suits cost him $3.50, the duties
were $3.50, and the brokerage, freight
etc., brought the cost of the goods ur
to S130.0S. The Star demands, in view
of these facts, that clothing be un.
taxed" That is, it would have the
duty taken off of clothing, so that more
of it could be made in London. If the
Stars correspondent had not have pre-
ferred the luxury of Lunnon tailor
he could have got his two suits much
cheaper in this country. In fact, gooC
clothing, made of American cloth. such
as is worn by the best clothed people il
the world, was never so cheap and sc
good as at the present time.-BoSto,
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